Music

"I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds." — Dizzy Gillespie

Irritated Critics
This is and is not the book Ellen Willis fans asked for.
Lisa LevyMay 12, 2014
- Gender & Sexuality
- Music
An Invisible Man, A Visible Voice
Robert ReaMay 10, 2014
- Biography & Autobiography
- Music
Experiments in Taste
Carl Wilson confronts a musical work he cannot understand the merits of: Céline Dion’s Let’s Talk About Love. Every critic should be attempting these experiments on a regular basis.
Elias LeightMay 1, 2014
- Music
Anywhere But Here: The Power of Place in '80s New Wave
Gina VivinettoApr 29, 2014
- Music
Piece of My Heart
Stephen DeusnerApr 27, 2014
- Music
The Donald Fagen Papers
In his new collection of essays, Fagen pays tribute to the culture that spawned his sensibility and sound.
Lary WallaceApr 16, 2014
- Music
Performance Anxiety: David Grubbs’s “Records Ruin the Landscape”
Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording
Dave MandlMar 24, 2014
- Music
Bach Psychology: Gothic, Sublime, or just human?
With scant primary documents to his name, Bach is nonetheless the most written-upon classic composer, which has led to a fluid historical identity.
Michael MarkhamMar 10, 2014
- Music
The Man in Black in Shades of Gray
In his epic new biography, Johnny Cash: The Life, Robert Hilburn explores both sides of his subject and how they were in constant conflict.
Stephen DeusnerDec 23, 2013
- Music
Compassion and Dignity: A Conversation with Elton John
John-Manuel AndrioteDec 22, 2013
- Gender & Sexuality
- Music
No Girls Allowed: On “Queens of Noise”
The Runaways: punk icons, feminist icons, hard-rock icons.
Victoria PattersonSep 1, 2013
- Music
The Super Chief
Van Dyke Parks remembers a 1957 train ride from Princeton to Pasadena.
Van Dyke ParksJul 25, 2013
- Memoir & Essay
- Music